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    Meditations with Meister Eckhart
    Meditations with Meister Eckhart
    Meditations with Meister Eckhart
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    Meditations with Meister Eckhart

    By Matthew Fox

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    Meister Eckhart was a 13th-century mystic, prophet, feminist, declared heretic, and an early advocate of creation-centered spirituality. This tradition affirms humanity’s potential to act divinely, and it embraces life--living and dying, growing old and sinning, groaning and celebrating--as the creative energy of God in motion. For Eckhart, to be spiritual is to be awake and alive; creation itself was for him the primary sacrament that begins from “the spring of life” or the heart.

    Eckhart’s pathway and that of the creation tradition is a simple way. It demands no gurus, no fanciful methods, no protracted exercises or retreats. This is why he called it a “wayless way” that is available to everyone, and why he points out that the person “who has found this way needs no other.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInner Traditions/Bear & Company
    Release dateJun 1, 1983
    ISBN9781591438175
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      Meditations with Meister Eckhart - Matthew Fox

      MEDITATIONS WITH MEISTER ECKHART

      Introduction and Versions by

      Matthew Fox, o.p.

      BEAR & COMPANY

      Rochester, Vermont

      For all those daring to make the spiritual journey

      and to befriend the darkness.

      may the hope of Meister Eckhart accompany you when he says:

      "The path is

      beautiful and pleasant and joyful and

      familiar."

      Introduction

      Meister Eckhart (1260-c. 1329) was mystic and prophet, feminist and philosopher, preacher and theologian, administrator and poet, a spiritual genius and a declared heretic. While all reputable scholars today agree he was unjustly condemned—his condemnation bears all the earmarks of an attempt to silence his prophetic preaching on behalf of the poor in his society—his way of spirituality remains too little known in the West. While Hindus and Buddhists claim Eckhart as one of their own, while psychologists like Jung and Marxists like Bloch and Fromm learn from him, many, many Christians hardly know the name, much less the spiritual tradition he represents so beautifully.

      That tradition is the creation-centered spiritual tradition. While the fall-redemption tradition begins spirituality with humanity’s sinfulness, the creation-centered tradition that Eckhart represents begins with humanity’s potential to act divinely both by way of compassion and of beauty-making and sharing. To begin with sin is not Good News—it is not news for nothing is more obvious to observers of human history—especially those of us in the 20th century—than our capacity for sin; and it is not good and does not arouse goodness or the good power of imagination that can create alternatives to the cycles of human folly and sin and violence.

      Of the spiritual pathway that Eckhart names, he himself says: This path is beautiful and pleasant and joyful and familiar. Why does he claim that his way is familiar? Is there a haunting recognition of the creation-centered way that conjures up childhood or other periods of truth in our lives? Is it because what is beautiful and pleasant and joyful is necessarily familiar because it is memorable and, try as we might, we do not forget such deep experiences of ecstasy and beauty? Is Eckhart’s way a familiar way because it is so non-elitest and because all persons whether women or men, lay or cleric, old or young, poor or comfortable already have taken this journey at some time in their lives? Eckhart was no closet-monk, no spiritual romantic longing for a cloister of refuge from the pain and politics of involvement in society. Highly educated that he was, professor that he was, still his profoundest spiritual maturation occurred not in academia but in mixing with the lay feminist movement of Beguines of his day. Perhaps that is why he could declare, contrary to those who find a comfortable refuge in academia, that the most noble kind of knowledge is learned by living. The creation spiritual tradition

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